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Jane Eyre
Words: 537 / Pages: 2 .... cake and tea, which brought Jane to comfort from the public humiliation. “We feasted that evening as on our nectar and ambrosia; and not the least delight of the entertainment was the smile of gratification of our hostess regarded us, as we satisfied our famished appetites on the delicate fare she liberally supplied” (65). Another example is Jane’s first morning at Thornfield. A positive mood was foreshadowed when Jane described the weather as, “The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window and carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and strained plaster of Lowood, that my spiri .....
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The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters
Words: 1532 / Pages: 6 .... extremely guilty because he knew that
Percy Staunton with whom he had earlier a fight, would throw one final
snowball at him before he goes into the house for supper. To avoid the
coming snowball he dodges around pregnant Mrs. Dempster who at the same
time gets hit on the head, causing her great pain. Dunny is just reaching
puberty and listening to his mother's reports on the premature birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So at the beginning of the two novels t .....
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Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution Of A Dream
Words: 944 / Pages: 4 .... fixed the 1919 World Series.
He has committed crimes in order to buy the house he feels he needs to win
the woman he loves. In chapter five Nick says, "...and I think he
revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it
drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith
of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things
seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence
which all that he has is devoted to. Yes, we should consider Jay Gatsby
as tragic figure because of belief that he can restore the past and live
happily, but his distorted faith is so intense .....
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Deliverance: The Passing Of The Torch
Words: 825 / Pages: 3 .... into a small, miserably cold cave where there
was one dead, crystalline frog. Lewis was the only man I knew who could do
with his life exactly what he wanted to." This thought of Ed's goes to
show how much he followed and depended on Lewis. Through this thought, it
seems as though the majority of the reason Ed ever did any camping or
outdoor activities was because he had Lewis to back him up. It also seemed
that Ed was somewhat jealous of Lewis. Ed was jealous because of Lewis'
ability to do whatever he wanted, his willingness and ability to deal with
the outdoors, and Lewis' body build. Drew and Bobby also seemed to rely on
Lewis quite a bit, .....
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Life On The Farm
Words: 4394 / Pages: 16 .... gives the more intelligent animals a new outlook on life.
The pigs, which are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the others. During the period of preparation two pigs can distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he is not a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker; he has a lot of ideas and is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of “Animalism.”
The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr. Jones comes home drunken one night, and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns a .....
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1984
Words: 1030 / Pages: 4 .... "The
Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner Party, and The
Outer Party which are the "Rich" and the "middle-class." There is a third
group of people called "The Proles," or "The Proletariat" which are the
poor, and considered to be animals by the party. The main leader of this
government is Big Brother. The novel is told in third person and partly
first person, and is also divided into three parts. In the first part the
main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in are revealed.
Winston Smith is a bureaucrat who works for the government by altering
history at the Ministry of Truth. He begins to ponder the reason .....
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Society's Views On Family Values And Children As Reflected In The Novel The Handmaid's Tale
Words: 1275 / Pages: 5 .... morals, but
without the monarchy's to enforce it the church's found their power
decreasing. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the government and
the church are interchangeable. The government is what used to be called
the church, they have come together to become one unit of power. The power
of a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with
the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none
other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society
which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity.
Children are taken away from their homes to be given to .....
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Babbit Vs. The Hobbit
Words: 790 / Pages: 3 .... kind of “adventure”. Both are what are considered prominent, wealthy, normal, conforming members of their communities. However, both Babbitt and Bilbo show inner turmoil with their need to be “free”.
Here is where the differences start to appear. The hobbit refers to something as simple as climbing a tree as an adventure. The prominent business man thinks that spending a weekend away from his wife and family is an adventure. To set forth upon an adventure of any kind a person needs to be free again, both characters define freedom in different ways. Bilbo simply needs to be away from the influence of his friends and .....
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The Natural
Words: 2432 / Pages: 9 .... meets on a train on his way to Chicago to try out for the Chicago Cubs. Roy is extremely attracted to her, but a major league ballplayer on the train named Whammer Wambold has already caught her eye. Roy becomes jealous and begins to do things to try to get her attention. At a stop in the route, the passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to him. As they arrive in Chicago, Harriet stays at the hotel at .....
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A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals A Guilty Heart
Words: 1279 / Pages: 5 .... “Be true, be true, be true!” rings out throughout the entire novel, and this justifies that perhaps the greatest theme emphasized by Nathaniel Hawthorne is that which is founded on honesty. There were several honest and dishonest people in The Scarlet Letter, and each of their lives ere changed due to their ethics. Throughout the entirety of The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne proved to be more honest than Roger Chillingworth in that she revealed her sin rather than concealing it, she faced her problems rather than running away from them, and Hester was an honest companion to Reverend Dimmesdale.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, Hester Prynn .....
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